I have had the dropped wireless issue on the MBP w/ 10.4.10. It only occurs for me on battery power (fine when plugged into ac). The fix for me was to switch the router to B only (not B&G- It is an Airport Express). Macbook Pro is rock solid and 4 bars all the time w/no dropouts. If I switch it to Mixed mode (B&G) it will go to 2 bars, strentgh goes up and down and will drop within a minute or two. I didn't want to downgrade to 10.4.9, so I leave it in B mode only, and have not had a drop to date. (doesn't really bother me as I use the network for DSL only- no wireless file transfer). Anyone use the MBP w the airport extreme gigabit router and have dropouts in N mode ? (mixed or N only ?) Just curious.
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I have had the dropped wireless issue on the MBP w/ 10.4.10. It only occurs for me on battery power (fine when plugged into ac). The fix for me was to switch the router to B only (not B&G- It is an Airport Express). Macbook Pro is rock solid and 4 bars all the time w/no dropouts. If I switch it to Mixed mode (B&G) it will go to 2 bars, strentgh goes up and down and will drop within a minute or two. I didn't want to downgrade to 10.4.9, so I leave it in B mode only, and have not had a drop to date. (doesn't really bother me as I use the network for DSL only- no wireless file transfer). Anyone use the MBP w the airport extreme gigabit router and have dropouts in N mode ? (mixed or N only ?) Just curious.
FC Studio Issue
Well since installing i'm having a lot of trouble... safari quits when i try and watch a quicktime thats embedded into a page and also and more importantly my pro app like FCP and DVDSP won't launch.... HELP!
Also I'm running x.4.11 on a powermac G4 dual1.42 and its Final Cut Studio 1
Well since installing i'm having a lot of trouble... safari quits when i try and watch a quicktime thats embedded into a page and also and more importantly my pro app like FCP and DVDSP won't launch.... HELP!
Also I'm running x.4.11 on a powermac G4 dual1.42 and its Final Cut Studio 1
But if there are no other GigE capable hosts on my network, I don't think I yet need that potential bandwidth boost.
Really? Gmail still looks the same to me and I still don't have my chat buddies listed. Is there a setting I need to change?
Localhost change?
Everything seems fine on the Mac, but a PC on the same local subnet can no longer see the localhost name for the "Web" site I had set up on the Mac. I checked all the usual parameters, including whether Personal Web Sharing is running, and have found nothing wrong. The PC can still hit it with an IP address, but that gets changed sometimes and so I'd rather go back to the localhost method. Anybody else (a) using this and (b) seeing a difference since going to 10.4.11? It's not a big deal, but I'd like to fix it if possible. TIA for any help!
Everything seems fine on the Mac, but a PC on the same local subnet can no longer see the localhost name for the "Web" site I had set up on the Mac. I checked all the usual parameters, including whether Personal Web Sharing is running, and have found nothing wrong. The PC can still hit it with an IP address, but that gets changed sometimes and so I'd rather go back to the localhost method. Anybody else (a) using this and (b) seeing a difference since going to 10.4.11? It's not a big deal, but I'd like to fix it if possible. TIA for any help!
Found this: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5859512
Looks like running Disk Utility to fix permissions works for some.
Finally I can have Tiger: The Spinal Tap edition! "This operating system goes to eleven"
I CAN'T HEAR YOU, CAN YOU USE A BIGGER FONT?
You're right, we didn't.
When Tiger was released I said, I'm not buying every version, I'll skip Tiger and wait till the next one.
Then last summer I started running into more and more websites that wouldn't work on Safari 1.x. They wanted Safari 2 or higher, or Firefox, and I couldn't upgrade to Safari 2.x without Tiger. So then I ended up with this mismash of Safari for most sites, but I'd open FF if I needed to look at certain sites, and what a pain, so I upgraded my home box to Tiger.
But in the end, Tiger is as far as my ol' G4 Quicksilver can go. No Leopard for me! Until I get my new MBP.
I CAN'T HEAR YOU, CAN YOU USE A BIGGER FONT?
You're right, we didn't.
When Tiger was released I said, I'm not buying every version, I'll skip Tiger and wait till the next one.
Then last summer I started running into more and more websites that wouldn't work on Safari 1.x. They wanted Safari 2 or higher, or Firefox, and I couldn't upgrade to Safari 2.x without Tiger. So then I ended up with this mismash of Safari for most sites, but I'd open FF if I needed to look at certain sites, and what a pain, so I upgraded my home box to Tiger.
But in the end, Tiger is as far as my ol' G4 Quicksilver can go. No Leopard for me! Until I get my new MBP.
Thankfully, I'm not having any issues with my weather widget. But the stock widget's changed a little bit. Its now all yahoo and stuff...
I am however having problems logging in to my hotmail (or windows live as its now called). I've been having issues since the last iteration of Safari, and even Safari 3 is still having the same issues. Am I alone, or is anyone else also having issues?
Also getting an annoyance with the BBC's news site. The scroll bar at the bottom appears and stays there. I have to scroll down til its out of my frame, then when I scroll back up its gone. Annoying as hell
I am however having problems logging in to my hotmail (or windows live as its now called). I've been having issues since the last iteration of Safari, and even Safari 3 is still having the same issues. Am I alone, or is anyone else also having issues?
Also getting an annoyance with the BBC's news site. The scroll bar at the bottom appears and stays there. I have to scroll down til its out of my frame, then when I scroll back up its gone. Annoying as hell
The combo screwed up my computer
So I downloaded the combo update and started the install. Near the end of the install I wanted to look at the About This Mac window which is the hot corner for my screen saver. Well, the computer flipped to a blue screen and the spinning icon popped up like it was restarting. Only it just sat their and did nothing for several minutes. I was forced to do a hard restart as the computer was unresponsive. To make a long story short, it turns out I had to get the system disk out and do an archive and install. Annoying. **end rant**
So I downloaded the combo update and started the install. Near the end of the install I wanted to look at the About This Mac window which is the hot corner for my screen saver. Well, the computer flipped to a blue screen and the spinning icon popped up like it was restarting. Only it just sat their and did nothing for several minutes. I was forced to do a hard restart as the computer was unresponsive. To make a long story short, it turns out I had to get the system disk out and do an archive and install. Annoying. **end rant**
Great well I was ok with no airport drop-outs before 10.4.11 but now the wireless connection is up and down like a yo-yo
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Problems with messenger
I had problems loggin in to messenger when i installed the safari 3 (beta), so i decide to get rid of it. Until i'm not sure that this update (10.4.11) o safari 3 has corrected the problem i will not upgrade.
20" Alu iMac, 2.4 Ghz and still not freezing
Thankfully, I'm not having any issues with my weather widget. But the stock widget's changed a little bit. Its now all yahoo and stuff...
I am however having problems logging in to my hotmail (or windows live as its now called). I've been having issues since the last iteration of Safari, and even Safari 3 is still having the same issues. Am I alone, or is anyone else also having issues?
Also getting an annoyance with the BBC's news site. The scroll bar at the bottom appears and stays there. I have to scroll down til its out of my frame, then when I scroll back up its gone. Annoying as hell
I had problems loggin in to messenger when i installed the safari 3 (beta), so i decide to get rid of it. Until i'm not sure that this update (10.4.11) o safari 3 has corrected the problem i will not upgrade.
20" Alu iMac, 2.4 Ghz and still not freezing
Solution for non-startup after 10.4.11 update
I found a solution here (see post number 15):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1240189
Basically you need to download the Combo 10.4.11 update (not the Delta one) using another Mac and copy it to a USB flash disk (or directly to the broken Mac's hard drive using FireWire target disk mode).
Then start up using the Tiger install DVD, start Terminal from the Utilities menu and install the update using the following command line template:
"/Volumes/<hard drive name>/usr/sbin/installer" -pkg "<path to update>/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.11Intel.pkg" -target "/Volumes/<hard drive name>"
For example:
"/Volumes/Macintosh HD/usr/sbin/installer" -pkg "/Volumes/USB Disk/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.11Intel.pkg" -target "/Volumes/Macintosh HD"
Ignore any error messages. When it has finished it will say "installer: The install was successful". You can then quit Terminal, quit Installer and choose Restart. Be patient - it will start up this time!
Hope this helps someone - it fixed my non-booting MacBook Pro after 3 hours of tearing my hair out.
I found a solution here (see post number 15):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1240189
Basically you need to download the Combo 10.4.11 update (not the Delta one) using another Mac and copy it to a USB flash disk (or directly to the broken Mac's hard drive using FireWire target disk mode).
Then start up using the Tiger install DVD, start Terminal from the Utilities menu and install the update using the following command line template:
"/Volumes/<hard drive name>/usr/sbin/installer" -pkg "<path to update>/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.11Intel.pkg" -target "/Volumes/<hard drive name>"
For example:
"/Volumes/Macintosh HD/usr/sbin/installer" -pkg "/Volumes/USB Disk/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.11Intel.pkg" -target "/Volumes/Macintosh HD"
Ignore any error messages. When it has finished it will say "installer: The install was successful". You can then quit Terminal, quit Installer and choose Restart. Be patient - it will start up this time!
Hope this helps someone - it fixed my non-booting MacBook Pro after 3 hours of tearing my hair out.
Follow-up
To add my post above, it's worth running the Combo update properly afterwards (i.e. by double-clicking it in Finder).
To add my post above, it's worth running the Combo update properly afterwards (i.e. by double-clicking it in Finder).
Safari for me is completely unusable. It crashes on EVERYTHING. Even trying to close a window crashes it.
I might re-download the BETA version.
On a plus side my macbook-airport problems are now fixed. Hasn't dropped out yet and connected to both my airport express and my d-link router just fine.
Whoop.
I might re-download the BETA version.
On a plus side my macbook-airport problems are now fixed. Hasn't dropped out yet and connected to both my airport express and my d-link router just fine.
Whoop.
Airport cards over the years uses different chipsets.
Not sure whether there are different types over the last year, but there are definitely differet chipsets for the intel macs.
MBP 17" Santa Rosa 2.4ghz. Had same problem of dropping connection at my house. Got the Airport Extreme Gigabit. No drop with it.
Had trouble with Airport Express. PowerBook G4 17" would get 4 bars, and MBP will get 1 bar or no bar. That Airport Express station is running old software though.
With airport express at another location, constant drops. Updated Airport Express software, and after that no drops.
So, log into your basestation and see if there is a software update, you might have to wait a minue for the update thing to pop up, so just leave the airport admin program running for awhile.
I had problems loggin in to messenger when i installed the safari 3 (beta), so i decide to get rid of it. Until i'm not sure that this update (10.4.11) o safari 3 has corrected the problem i will not upgrade.
20" Alu iMac, 2.4 Ghz and still not freezing
You should try AdiumX, it's pretty good IM client compatible with multiple services.
update troubles
has anyone else noticed any troubles with safari after the 10.4.11 update? mine opens, freezes and shuts down. all other apple apps work fine, just safari is messing up. repaired permissions, verified and repaired disk, even did apple hardware test, just to be thorough, still no go. help, please? i hate firefox, which is what i am stuck with. (luckily i had it on here already)
has anyone else noticed any troubles with safari after the 10.4.11 update? mine opens, freezes and shuts down. all other apple apps work fine, just safari is messing up. repaired permissions, verified and repaired disk, even did apple hardware test, just to be thorough, still no go. help, please? i hate firefox, which is what i am stuck with. (luckily i had it on here already)
Well that didn't work
It said it had successfully installed, but upon restart, same nastiness...blue screen and my fan is howling rrrrrrr10.4.11 is just what I've been waiting for, so I immediately installed it yesterday night.
The download was quite huge at 330MB since mine ran 10.4.8, but everything seems to be working fine just like it was before.
The download was quite huge at 330MB since mine ran 10.4.8, but everything seems to be working fine just like it was before.
Never, NEVER screw with any installation. Quit all applications when installing something that alters the system at all. That is a very bad idea, as you found out. I even close Finder, like the installers used to do before OSX.
Worse off with .11
My AirPort connection drops in and out a lot now. And my favicons have disappeared from my Safari bookmarks menu. Slightly faster boot time (I think).
My AirPort connection drops in and out a lot now. And my favicons have disappeared from my Safari bookmarks menu. Slightly faster boot time (I think).
I'm not ready to update to 10.5 yet, so it's really great to get a final (non beta) Safari 3 for 10.4. The Find function alone is much better.
Well that didn't work
i found an easier way of solving it:
i had the same problem and was able to fix it by doing an archive + install, just select the option that allows you to backup your current osx. after that finishes, download and install the combo update. it should take a few minutes to reboot at times so just be patient. after that's all done, run a software update and finally delete the folder "previous systems" that was generated as a backup.
no need to format. might need a few gigabytes of extra hard drive space to pull this one off though.